United States of Anxiety: Election count drama may give markets and investors sleepless nights

Hopes of a swift, decisive result dashed

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I have sat through many elections over the past 40 years or so and yet I can still be shocked. That a country that leads the world in technology can make such a Horlicks of an election count.

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